ÆLFWINE: Anglo-Saxon name
composed of the Old English elements ælf
"elf," and wine
"friend," hence "elf friend."

ÆLIA:
From Roman Ælianus, meaning "solar,
sun."
This name is part of a puzzling alchemical inscription
(Ælia Lælia
Crispus) supposedly found in Bologna,
which some have theorized is a representation of two
beings, Ælia and Lælia,
who are united in a single subject, Crispus
"curly," with Ælia being "solar"
from helios and Lælia being "lunar,"
while Crispus, a combination of both, is the basic
substance (obvoluta intricata) from which all
life was made, thus "curly," in reference to
the hair of gossamer dryads which were said to be
neither man nor woman but hermaphroditic.

ÆSON: Latin form of Greek
Aison, possibly meaning "to be" or "that which is
made." In mythology, this is the
name of Jason's
father.

ÆSOP:
Latin form of Greek Aisopos,
the name of the author of Æsop's Fables, said to be a Greek
hump-backed slave of African descent; therefore, the name has
taken on the meaning "hump-backed," but in
Greek it means "Ethiop."

ÆTHER:
Latin form of Greek Aither,
meaning "bright, upper air." In mythology,
this is the name of one
of the first gods, the son of Erebus
and Nyx. He is
the god of the pure, upper air that only the gods
breathe, as opposed to the gloomy, lower "aer"
breathed by mortals.

AFTON:
Old English surname transferred to unisex forename use,
derived from
the name of the River Afton in Ayrshire, Scotland, made
famous in Burns' poem "Sweet Afton."

AFZAL
(افضل): Arabic name meaning
"superior."

AGAMEMNON
(Ἀγαμέμνων): Greek name
meaning "very resolute." In mythology, this is
the name of the
king of Mycenaie and leader of the Greeks in the Trojan
War. He was the son of
King Atreus and brother of
Menelaus.

AGAPETO:
Variant spelling of Italian/Spanish form of Agapito, meaning
"beloved."

ÄGID: Abbreviated form of German
Ägidius, meaning
"kid; young goat" or "shield of
goatskin."

ÄGIDIUS: German form of Late Latin
Ægidius, meaning
"kid; young goat" or "shield of
goatskin."

AGIM: Albanian name meaning
"dawn."

AGLÆCA: An
Old English dictionary defines áglǽca as follows: "wretch,
miscreant, monster, demon, fierce enemy, fierce combatant, miserable
being." In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, Grendel,
Grendel's mother and
Beowulf are all three referred to by this name for each is a "fierce
combatant."

AGNE:
Scandinavian form of Old Norse Agni,
meaning "edge (of a sword)."

AGNI:
Old Norse name derived from the word egg, meaning
"edge (of a sword)."

AGNIMUKHA: Hindi
name meaning "face of fire." In one of the ancient Panchatantra
children's tales, this is the name of a flea.

AGRIPPA
(Агриппа):
Latin form of Greek Agrippas,
meaning "wild horse." In the New Testament
bible, this is the name of the Herod Agrippa who ordered the execution of the
apostle James, and
the imprisonment of
Peter. Compare with feminine
Agrippa.

AGRIPPAS
(Αγρίππας):
Greek name meaning
"wild horse." In the New Testament bible, this
is the name of the Herod Agrippa who ordered the execution of the
apostle James, and
the imprisonment of Peter.

AGRO:
From a Celtic word meaning
"battle; slaughter."

AGRON:
Albanian name of the second king of Illyria, the husband
of Teuta, possibly meaning "dawn."

AHMOSE:
Egyptian name meaning "child of the moon" or
"the moon is born." This is the name of
a pharaoh of ancient Egypt.

AHOTE:
Native American Hopi name meaning "restless one."

AHRIMAN:
Middle Persian form of Old Persian Angra
Mainyu, meaning "devil; evil spirit." In
mythology, this is the name of the god of darkness, death and
destruction, and the number one enemy of Ahura
Mazda.

AHTI:
Another name for Finnish Lemminkäinen,
the myth name of a god of magic, a sorcerer said to be able
to "sing the sand into pearls."

AHTO: Finnish myth name of
a god of
sea and fishing, known as the "wave-host." He was described as having a beard of
moss. He dwelled in an underwater palace called Ahtola
with his cold-hearted wife Vellamo.

AHUILIZTLI: Nahuatl unisex name meaning
"joy."

AHURA MAZDA
(اهورا مزدا):
Persian myth name of the
uncreated creator of everything in the universe, whose
archenemy is Ahriman. In Avestan, Ahura
is the term for a good
divinity. Mazda stands for wisdom. Hence, the
name means "divinity of wisdom."